Pastoral Resources

I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.